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ORS 163.375

Applied in 510 court decisions — leading case State v. Stevens (1991)

Most recently applied in 347 Or. App. 845 - State v. Quirk (March 2026)

1971 c.743 §111; 1989 c.359 §2; 1991 c.628 §3; 2021 c.82 §4

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

(1) A person who has sexual intercourse with another person commits the crime of rape in the first degree if:

(a) The victim is subjected to forcible compulsion by the person;

(b) The victim is under 12 years of age;

(c) The victim is under 16 years of age and is the person’s sibling, of the whole or half blood, the person’s child or the person’s spouse’s child; or

(d) The victim is incapable of consent by reason of mental incapacitation, physical helplessness or incapability of appraising the nature of the victim’s conduct.

(2) Rape in the first degree is a Class A felony.

Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.